Fidget spinners emerged this spring, seemingly from out of nowhere, as a must-have gadget. Before December 2016, Google searches for the words "fidget spinner" were basically nonexistent.

Fidget spinners are everywhere these days. Classrooms. Subways. Broadway audiences. (Shout-out to the teenager in the audience of a performance of Dear Evan Hansen on April 15. I saw you, dude ...

In the first 12 days of June, there were 9.9 fidget spinner videos in the top trending list on average, up from 7.5 videos on an average day in May and 1.4 videos on an average day in April.

All fidget spinners are different, there are colored ones, metal ones, small ones, cheap ones. But most of them have one thing in common — a detachable piece that some kids are choking on.

Helen Holden heard about fidget spinners last month when her 7-year-old twins demanded she stop at a 7-Eleven to buy them. “I thought it was a drink,” says the bank vice president and blogger ...

One fidget spinner that she tested, for example, had an LED light that popped out when the toy broke. When Rubin tested the battery for this LED light, she found that it contained 19,000 parts per ...

Fidget spinners invaded and have basically gone through every stage of life before their ultimate demise and then resurrection 20 years from now (looking at you, 90s hip hop and “Fuller House”).

Fidget spinners are the hot new toy. Kids love them. Teachers and schools, not so much. If you've never heard of a fidget spinner, it's a toy with a ball bearing in the middle and prongs (usually ...

The spinners in question are: “Fidget Wild Premium Spinner Brass,” which tested at 33,000 parts per million of lead in its center circle and 22,000 parts per million in the arm, and the ...

According to the SpinnerList, a database for fidget spinners and makers, 32 percent of the largest high schools in the United States have banned the toys or plan to ban the toy by the end of the week.